Jan. 2019

If you stay in south Texas for even a few weeks in the winter, the locals call you a Winter Texan…and like you…’cause you spend money! So, we are Winter Texans and we’re starting to say “y’all” but with a Maine accent!

This is how close to the bay we were camped at Bird Island, Padre Island National Seashore, when we moved there at the beginning of the gov’t shutdown. They left this campground open because it offered no services.

Some local wildlife:

The weather in Port Aransas has been so much better than last winter! Last winter was gray, cold and damp. This winter has been mostly sunny or partly sunny and warmer, some days up to 70. It is super windy here though- rarely is it calm and usually it blows 15mph or more- 25mph+ happens a couple times a week. Pickleball is a different sport in wind like this! But good for flying kites!

 

Speaking of Pickleball- we have three courts nearby and 10-30 playing 3-4 times a week, even with all the wind! We have met a lot of people from the Midwest and some north Texas that winter here.

From the RV park we are at in January we can see ships in the channel, walk to PB and a nature preserve and up to town. The Gulf beach is just over a mile away. Nice place, but a tight RV park.
We follow the weather back in Maine, and are ever so grateful to be missing the snow and cold…maybe some year we will want to be in it again…wait…shoveling again? maybe not.
We’re working on the camper; fixing and upgrading, cleaning and re-organizing, etc.